Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

In December 1985 a teenage girl purchased the album at the Wherehouse Records store in Los Angeles County.

George Pólya ( December 13, 1888 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György ) was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician.

Yakima Training Center ; Yakima, Washington was the main testing grounds of the HMMWVs from 1985 through December 1991, when the motorized concept was abandoned and the Division inactivated.

Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on December 7, 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostages transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to " moderates elements " within that country.

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* 1985, United Kingdom, Futura Orbit ISBN 0-7088-8166-1, Pub date December 1985, paperback

After the December 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks, which killed 19 and wounded around 140, Gaddafi indicated that he would continue to support the Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army as long as European countries support anti-Gaddafi Libyans.

In late December 1985, however, a border dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso over the mineral rich Agacher strip erupted into a brief war.

He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Irene Flaugher ( born 1916-died December 26, 1985 ), an unwed woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through a relationship with an army corporal named John Bourgholtzer ( died 1993 ).

In December 1985 Rory Nugent spotted an anomaly moving through the middle of Lake Tele, approximately 1 kilometer from his position on the shore.

Jones sold the company to Ashton-Tate in December 1985 for about $ 20 million.

The Jets were featured in the first NFL playoff game in the stadium's history, falling to the Patriots on December 28, 1985.

In 1979 RTÉ long running TV soap The Riordans moved to Radio until December 24, 1985.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

* Muhammetnazar Gapurowiç Gapurow ( 24 December 1969 – 21 December 1985 )

* Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow ( 21 December 1985 – 16 December 1991 )

* Chary Soyunovich Karriyev ( 15 December 1978 – 26 March 1985 )

Backstage at the Hollywood Palace show on December 26, 1985, one member's eyeball mask ( Mr. Red Eye ) was stolen, so it was replaced with a giant skull mask.

She was commissioned 30 December 1959 and decommissioned 24 January 1985.

* December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1985 )

AZ were undefeated in all 32 of their home matches in European competitions, a sequence which ran from 1977 until 20 December 2007, when they finally lost to Everton of England by a score of 3 – 2.

Following the recognition of Belarus as an independent state in December 1991 by the European Community, EC / EU-Belarus relations initially experienced a steady progress.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738 ) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

: On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for the European Union ( EU ).

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

* becoming a member of the Central European Free Trade Agreement ( CEFTA ) in December 2002

On 2 December 1823, US President James Monroe specifically addressed Cuba and other European colonies in his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

In December 1992, the rest of the EC agreed to exempt Denmark from certain aspects of the European Union, including a common defense, a common currency, EU citizenship, and certain aspects of legal cooperation ( the 4 Danish Opt-outs ).

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

In December 2008 in a landmark decision the European Court of Justice ruled that:

After an agreement with the European Union in 2005, this tax exempt regime is due to disappear on 31 December 2010.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

Letter from Paul Wolfowitz to the Minister ( government ) | Ministers of the Member State of the European Union | EU states from December 2001 as part of the US-lobbying campaign against Galileo

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

Helene Kröller-Müller, ( February 11, 1869 – December 14, 1939 ) was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection.

As a result of austerity measures passed in December 2010, Italy is targeting a public budget deficit of 3. 9 % in 2011 and 2. 7 % in 2012, both among the lowest in the European Union.